Improving Page Load Time

  • ohpayk

    (@ohpayk)


    11 years, 9 months ago

    I’m trying to improve page load time and am looking for some tips. There are a few things I’m considering. I’ve used WebPageTest.org to get my load time information. 69 Total requests and 2,756 kb.

    1. I did not create the theme for this page and support is no longer supplied so I’m wandering if it’s worth it to decipher and rework code to combine css files. I see 12 being loaded within the first 18 requests, the main file being 9.2kb

    2. The Revolution Slider is being used with 6 image slides the largest image being 305.8kb average around 175kb. Are these images too large because this appears to be a huge chunk of the load time.

    3. I’ve read the Filament Group’s article about reducing load times in RWD and am wandering if it is worth it to inline around 20 javascript files each under 10kb or just have them load with <async>

    4. An Adobe typekit font is loaded as well as Google Analytics. Is there a best practice for loading those without slowing down render time because I know those are hefty requests. I would assume with the font the answer is no because it is the body copy font.

    5. I don’t see any WordPress related requests that would slow anything down but is there anything else I should do?

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 9 months ago

    I did not create the theme for this page and support is no longer supplied so I’m wandering if it’s worth it to decipher and rework code to combine css files. I see 12 being loaded within the first 18 requests, the main file being 9.2kb

    Have you tried a minification plugin instead?

    Thread Starter ohpayk

    (@ohpayk)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    I have not. From my understanding less requests would be faster then multiple requests of smaller sizes. In the end I’ll probably minify the final file with sass manually. If it’s not going to make a huge difference though I would be more than willing to use a minification plugin. Only two of the CSS files are larger the rest are under 1.5kb

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 9 months ago

    Oh sorry maybe I’m not describing what I mean, ummm, what’s that name for a plugin that combines all of the CSS/ JS files… I know some caching plugins do it but you don’t really want to cache your files just for this.

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